Review imprint: 1779 books
The Reawakening of the Arab World
Challenge and Change in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
According to renowned Marxist economist Samir Amin, the recent Arab Spring uprisings comprise an integral part of a massive "second awakening" of the Global South. From the self-immolation in December 2010 of a Tunisian street vendor, to the consequent outcries in Cairo's Tahrir Square against...
Capitalist Globalization
Consequences, Resistance, and Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“Globalization,” surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords
of recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically
considered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of market
forces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, business
leaders, and mainstream journalists...
Producing Prosperity
Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Manufacturing’s central role in global innovation
Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years-even decades-in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming...
The Next Factory of the World
How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Will Africa be the world’s next hub of manufacturing? China is answering in the affirmative and investing accordingly. This book dispels the notion that this crucial story is merely about China’s exploitation of Africa’s resources, illuminating deep questions about our own, Western approach...
Creating an Ecological Society
Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life....
The Origin of Wealth
The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how can wealth be increased for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society? In The...
The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism
How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Mainstream, or more formally, neoclassical, economics claims to be a science. But as Michael Perelman makes clear in his latest book, nothing could be further from the truth. While a science must be rooted in material reality, mainstream economics ignores or distorts the most fundamental aspect of...
Remix Strategy
The Three Laws of Business Combinations
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
How to Create Joint Value
Alliances, partnerships, acquisitions, mergers, and joint ventures are no longer the exception in most businesses-they are part of the core strategy. As managers look to external partners for resources and capabilities, they need a practical roadmap to ensure that...
The Leaders We Need
And What Makes Us Follow
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
A leader is someone people follow. But why do people follow? Books abound on leaders, but much less is known about followers. In The Leaders We Need, Maccoby steps into this yawning gap in the literature.
This insightful book shows that followers have their own powerful motivations to follow....
Agriculture and Food in Crisis
Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world's population continues to suffer from hunger or food...
Reverse Innovation in Health Care
How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Two experts in reverse innovation reveal four different pathways for providing value-based health care and show how these, and other revolutionary practices from India, are being adopted in areas across the United States.
Reveals how some far-sighted US providers are practicing health care delivery...
by The Research Unit for Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
"This book contributes significantly ot the conversation seeking to understand the international forces at play in the threatening war on Iraq."—Nelson Mandela "Behind the Invasion of Iraq . . .synthesizes the seemingly disparate threads of the U.S. war drive in a blistering indictment...
Liu Xiaobo's Empty Chair
Chronicling the Reform Movement Beijing Fears Most; Includes the full text of Charter 08 and other primary documents
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
When the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it was awarding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese literary critic and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, it made special note of his role in writing a remarkable political manifesto called Charter 08. In China, that same document has caused officials...
Revolutionary Doctors
How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the Worlds Conception of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer...